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Snithe

//snaɪð// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Sharp; cutting.
  2. 2
    Cold, piercing.
Verb
  1. 1
    To cut; to make an incision; to cut off; to lance or amputate; to cut up; to cut so as to kill; to slay an animal; to hew; to cut stone; to cut hair; to cut corn; to reap; to mow. Northern-England, dialectal, transitive

    "Snithe a piece off with thy knife."

  2. 2
    Obsolete spelling of sny (“abound, swarm, teem, be infested”). alt-of, obsolete

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English snithen, from Old English snīþan (“to cut, make an incision, cut off, lance or amputate, cut up or to pieces, cut so as to kill, slay an animal, hew down, cut stone, hew, cut hair, cut corn, reap, mow”), from Proto-West Germanic *snīþan, from Proto-Germanic *snīþaną (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *sneyt- (“to cut”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian sniede (“to cut”), West Frisian snije (“to cut”), Dutch snijden (“to cut, carve, intersect”), Low German snieden (“to cut”), German schneiden (“to cut, trim, slice”), Swedish snida (“to carve, engrave”), Icelandic sníða (“to trim, tailor”). Related to snide.

Etymology 2

From Middle English snithe (“cutting, sharp”), from snithen (“to cut”), see above.

Etymology 3

Variation of sny.

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